The English Patient is a love story set in Europe as World War II ends. It is a wartime romance mystery. Told in flashback, Ralph Fiennes plays the English patient, Count Laszlo de Almasy, a Hungarian cartographer of few words, who works for the British government, and is stationed in the North African desert. Count Laszlo is the unidentified burned survivor of a plane crash turned over to the Allies, taken into custody by a medical convoy in Italy, and essentially left to die in peace, in an isolated monastery in Tuscany, under the care of an inspiring French-Canadian nurse. This vibrant young woman named Hana has a heart of gold but she thinks that she is a curse as anybody she ever loved tends to die on her. Hana adminsters Count Laszlo de Almasy with morphine, and reads to him a book considered to be his only possession. Hana seems to stimulate his memories while she reads to him. As a badly burned man, he has only memories. His joy and heartbreak are completely clear and visible in his eyes. He remembers falling under the spell of an attractive English married woman. Although they try to avoid each other, they fall …show more content…
In fact one of the most significant parts of the movie is the scene when Count had walked for three days back to Cairo to seek help for Katherine. Once he arrived to the British-controlled Egypt community the dazed and dehydrated Count, with his non-English name, was unable to coherently explain to officials the plane crash and Katherine's predicament. The officials questioned his name, how to spell it and sarcastically asked what nationally it was. Count gets frustrated , losses his temper, and is thrown into military jail. What makes this so emotional is Katherine died because he had the wrong name at the wrong time. Ironically enough when he came back to Italy after his plane wreak they wrote on his chart “English Patient”, so after all that he became
The English Patient is set in the Villa San Girolamo at the close of World War II. The war has damaged the lives of the four main characters. The setting of a war torn villa reflects the damage in their lives. All around the people are unexploded bombs. Ondaatje researched Kip's job of diffusing bombs carefuly. He gives bit by bit narration of the process of diffusing a live bomb. This careful detail and verisimilitude creates an air of tension and apprehension.
The NHS was then finalised during 1948, the main role of the NHS was to reduce health inequalities throughout Britain, so that everyone could be treated the same way, whatever their finance stability, job status and location. They believed that this programme should have reduced inequalities throughout Britain. It was created by Aneurin Bevan and Edwin Chadwick but it was successful until the Prime Minister at the time who was Margaret Thatcher accepted the Bill through Parliament. The NHS included the Public Health Acts such as maternal and child welfare, availability for beds in hospitals and General Doctors in local areas. The NHS also included things such as Vaccinations and Immunisations and social work skills such as home helps and also
”The English Patient”. Dir. Anthony Minghella. Perf. Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Defoe, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Miramax, 1996.
William Golding , the author of The Lord of the flies believes that evil resides in all human beings. The Lord of the Flies begins softly but nearing the end everything turns upside down. But would the world be the same way it is today without societal structure and rules? Only through societal structure, rules and order will humans be thought morality/principal and proper behaviour. The Lord of the Flies demonstrates what society would look like/resort to without any rules or guidance for man to follow. Others might believe this is true because of natural evil and actions done by individuals, a comparison through savagery and civilization, and certain truths in the world that are evil.
Leadership, Character, Service, Citizenship. When I think of the NHS, leadership, character, community, and role modeling are all things that come to mind. Being a part of the National Honor Society will help me do just that. I have worked hard for outstanding grades, citizenship, and becoming a leader and role model for other classmates.
Today, many Americans face the struggle of the daily hustle and bustle, and at times can experience this pressure to rush even in their medical appointments. Conversely, the introduction of “patient-centered care” has been pushed immensely, to ensure that patients and families feel they get the medical attention they are seeking and paying for. Unlike years past, patient centered care places the focus on the patient, as opposed to the physician.1 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) separates patient centered care into eight dimensions, including respect, emotional support, coordination of care, involvement of the family, physical comfort, continuity and transition and access to care.2
Physical therapists help get rid of pain and will make injured individuals recover faster. There are many requirements to being called a physical therapist. Proper education is not the only requirement to be called a physical therapist, but a person must also have certain characteristics that will benefit the patients. Physical therapists help people feel better, and everyday, there will always be individuals that will get injured, which makes physical therapists necessary to society. I want to pursue being a physical therapist because I enjoy helping people. I would imagine that helping people get rid of pain and helping them recover will be a satisfying experience. There are many things that come with being a physical therapist, including the joy of helping the injured on a daily basis and the many aspects that go with the profession.
In this novel, Almásy was born in Hungary, he was educated in England and lived in desert. Kip was born in India and joined the British army. As the patient says, “We were German, English, Hungarian, African—all of us insignificant to them. Generally we became nationless” (Ondaatje 138). Kip and Almásy was both born in one place and choosing to live elsewhere. However, Michael Ondaatje is also an “in-between” person just like the characters in his novel. Born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and settled down in Canada, Ondaatje has always sensed the importance of finding a root. In a sense, the novel The English Patient is a self-portrait of Ondaatje. It contains his bewilderment about his own uncertain origins—Sri Lanka, England and Canada. The novel itself is a bildungsroman in which the characters struggle and are gradually mature to finding their identity; the author Ondaatje also matures through his writing process. As for readers, the novel has advocate the importance of struggling to find one’s real self. In a word, Ondaatje’s novel is a really brilliant piece that achieves a triple-win
The limited character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel, The English Patient, was Almásy. Almásy was a man who was burned from head to toe, and whose identity is unrecognizable thus making him a limited character. The novel takes place in a villa where the man was being taken care of by Hana, a young nurse who stayed behind to take care of Almásy while the rest of the nurses escaped to a safer place to stay. She calls him the English patient because of his accent, though she is unaware of where he is from. The entire novel is focused on the history of the English patient, where he tells the story of his past to Hana, Caravaggio, and Kip. Although in the present Almásy is a limited character, the novel is based on the constant flashbacks of his terrible past where he is a normal man struggling for his true love thus leading him to his present state.
A philosophy that is established is neither from one belief nor one truth, but it comes from the collaboration of one’s background, experiences, and influences. My personal philosophy of care is deeply rooted from my support system. My grandmother was a nurse and my Mom has been nursing for 23 years. I think it is in my nature to have the desire to help others and join them on their journey to a healthier self.
British English is spoken in the British Isles, which includes the United Kingdom and Ireland is the original dialect of English. It is considered more formal and traditional than other English dialects. There are a few regional dialects that differ depending on which country in the Isles you are in however there is a great deal of uniformity in the written language with most contrasts found in the spoken language. The Voices project conducted by the British Broadcasting Company and the University of Leeds shows how pronunciation and use of words and slang differs by region in the United Kingdom. The University of Leeds, who have previously done work on the English dialect during the 1950’s, collected the data, which include questionnaires
... English Patient is a scrapbook of another world of romance, tragedy, and adventure all jumbled out of sequence. With this film, Anthony Minghella has crafted a film that is lyrical and complex-emotionally, morally-full of enduring images: a vivid yellow biplane against a blue sky, wrinkled dunes from the air melting into the crumpled sheet of a deathbed or sheets rumpled by lovemaking, a mountain described as "shaped like a woman's back' later echoed in Katharine's silhouette as she lies in bed (Minghella, English). At the end, The English Patient comes full circle, back to where it started, like the memories that torment Almasy, with the shadows of the plane flying over the desert, shot down by the Germans.
The novel also highlights the passionate relationship between Henry and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse in Italy. Henry’s insight into the war and his intense love for Catherine emphasize that love and war are the predominant themes in the novel and these themes contribute to bringing out the implicit and explicit meaning of the novel. Being a part of the Italian army, Henry is closely involved with the war and has developed an aversion to the war. Henry’s association with the war has also made him realise that war is inglorious and the sacrifices made in war are meaningless. Specifically, Henry wants the war to end because he is disillusioned by the war and knows that war is not as glorious as it is made up to be.
The language is important in human life, however most people do not usually recognize this fact because the native language for them is the breath of life. I also did now know that. When I was at school, learning languages -Korean that is my mother tongue, English that was a required foreign language, and French that was a second foreign language- was just for my grades. I never felt the need to learn the languages and never have the chance to choose what kind of languages I want to learn.
The expansion of the British Empire drove the language into other nations. The growth of specific industries like science, war, manufacturing, and medicine brought specific words into the language. The invention of the automobile created an entirely new need for words. These specific words are now ingrained into our language and include terms like blitz, bulldozer, air-raid, cholesterol, allergy, hormones, stethoscope, quark, psychoanalysis, astronaut, carburetor, differential, spark plugs, and traffic light. The advent of the entertainment industry brought us words like film, microphone, tweeter, and loudspeaker. The same goes for the invention of computers and the Internet with new words like weblog, Internet,